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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Lick Some Wheat!

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2 of A&G features a Senate hearing on extremism & misinformation online. Plus, Monopoly is changing, the Mumford & Sons cancel culture story and how kids have forgotten to be students.

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0:00.0

from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio the George Washington broadcast

0:14.0

center.

0:15.0

Armstrong and Joe getty Armstrong and getty show.

0:22.0

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he supports a change too.

0:25.0

In his prepared testimony he said instead of being granted immunity,

0:29.0

platforms should be required to demonstrate that they have systems in place for identifying unlawful content and removing it.

0:36.0

But Google doesn't sound like it's on board.

0:39.0

CEO Sunderpachai warned that reforming or repealing the law could harm free expression and hamstring companies.

0:45.0

Meanwhile Twitter is pushing industry solutions, testing out ideas like getting its own users more involved in an open decentralized platform.

0:54.0

Bottom line Scott, no one is on the same page here, not even the CEO themselves.

0:59.0

An open decentralized platform with the users involved. That's an interesting idea.

1:03.0

Kind of like what Wikipedia is.

1:05.0

Sounds like to me on Twitter.

1:08.0

I saw Zuckerberg said that yesterday about platforms they should have to have a mechanism for getting what?

1:17.0

All stuff, illegal stuff, whatever off the site.

1:19.0

And I wondered if that was one of those things that Amazon does all the time.

1:24.0

The reason Amazon is pushing for a certain wage is that they know that nobody else can do it.

1:30.0

That will keep competition away.

1:32.0

And I just wonder if that's sort of Zuckerberg's Facebook thing is no startup could afford to do that.

1:37.0

So they'll not have any competition.

1:40.0

Right. That's straight out of the Tim Sandefur School of Economic Theory where the super giants push for more regulation

1:47.0

because they know they're the only ones with a compliance department.

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